David Foster

I make hopefully interesting interactive playthings. One time one of those won a BAFTA. Co-founder and CTO at @GreatApeGames.

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@SouthApe Love to see people noticing this!

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To see our game featured at this year’s State of Play, alongside so many other titles is a genuinely surreal moment for us. We’re so proud of our team who got us here. Thank you to everyone who kept believing in us, and our vision of #thelostwild

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@MerriamWebster I’m so gusted to finally have a sipid word for this!

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@games_inu Dying to know how you get on with 5.8 in just under a thousand years!

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If one God created itself, why can't multiple have created themselves? If one God always existed, why can't multiple have always existed?

If the answer is only one God always existed or created itself, then why can't this universe be that which always existed or created itself?

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@1929stockcrash I love that you went to great lengths not to inconvenience people. Just like the rats, you run this city nocturnally.

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@engineers_feed I immediately have this weird sense that these numbers are awkward because of their shared relationship with two. You can take two from the 37, add it to the 48, and then you have the simple sum of 35 + 50 = 85.

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@Pixie1z What my Ma cooked when we were a bit poor: A
What I wanted when we were a bit poor: C
What I want now: B

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@QuetzalPhoenix The best way to follow this protip is to use the term "my favorite."

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@CrowofLove1 @cjsnowdon I take your point. It's consistent with what I said.

I hope no-one reading this ever has to come into contact with the NHS's shortcomings. As Brits, many know it can fail us and our loved ones.

The Olympics is an example of us pandering to the world's perspective of the NHS.

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@LionCub888 @LeilaHormozi You're right, but the best analogy I've found that elucidates why this is a probabilistic reason error comes from @ATabarrok

https://t.co/ECSqS8u805

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Since the probability of a girl child is 1/2 you only need to have two kids to be guaranteed a girl.

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@ofcrdeonjoseph Incredible commentary. Utterly captivating.

Random thought: why is it that basically every human intrinsically roots for this bunny? We're ecstatic, all celebrating that our team won when bunny got away.

As the apex predator on Earth it's a nice thing that we think this way.

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@ATabarrok Begetting a girl is not luck. It’s math.

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@ATabarrok This is such a wonderful, concise, psychologically vivid example of this class of probabilistic reasoning error. Thank you for this gift.

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@bluewmist A men’s option: an exquisite Autumn/Winter coat. Seriously, spend like $1000 on one of these things. For one, they cover 70% of your body so you’re most of the way towards looking completely slick. They last forever, they keep you warm, they make you feel great about yourself.

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@Noone1137202 @Math_files For sure. Given Ramanujan’s track record of absolutely miraculous feats of revealed truth of mathematics, I actually thought it was possible he found an integer here via some dream revelation from the goddess Namagiri or something.

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@Real_shadmxtgp Gotta be Spain, right? S + Pain?

Can't lie though: I played around with bonkers ideas like S + Sit Knee = Sydney. Weird to include a chair and sitting if the key concept is merely pain!

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@lifelikedrone @Rainmaker1973 One society dies at rates of ~20% to homicide, infanticide, or accidents, and ~65% to infectious disease or parasitic illness. Lifetime maternal risk of dying in childbirth is ~7.5%.

Human-caused extinction is awful, but I'm siding with whatever team minimises human suffering.